Would you be OK with Trump letting the GOPe back in if it means defeating Cruz?
GOPe will do what they did in 2012 - Wrench Pubus or one of his henchmen will chair the convention. The chair will recognize a motion from the floor to delete the rule. The chair will then call for a voice vote, which, in the (unappealable) opinion of the chair, will decide in favor of the deletion motion. Game over.
Of course this little bit of housekeeping will be done in the daytime when only CSPAN will be looking in. The rest of the media will focus on the resulting turmoil - not the issue itself. The National Review crowd will tut-tut over the “anger” of the Trump delegates. See how all this works?
I don’t want any game playing. They each need to instruct their delegates to retain rule 40. That guarantees that one or the other comes out as the nominee and no one else.
It is a brilliant move, and the two of them WILL have the majority of all the delegates, so any decision they make ahead of time cannot be overturned.
This is not saying that one or the other is president or vice-president. It is simply saying that it is going to be one or the other of those two and no one else.
I prefer Trump, but I will vote for Cruz. I’d vote for Cruz far more easily than I did Romney, that’s for sure.
Cruz hasn’t got a snowball’s chance in hell in the general. The more conservative you are, the more likable you have to be. That’s why Reagan won — he was the most conservative candidate since Goldwater, but unlike Goldwater, he was a helluva nice guy. Compared to Cruz, though, Goldwater was someone you wanted to drink beer and watch football with all weekend long. Cruz is a thoroughly unlikable person — a phony, arrogant jerk, an insufferable a-hole. Even though the days of Goldwater, McGovern, and Mondale landslide defeats are apparently long gone, Detestable Ted will still get a shellacking. Even by Sanders, if that came to pass.